Common Sense, Not Common – Page 12 – Disney Brand Loyalty Keynote Speaker

Tell ‘Em What You’re Gonna Tell Them

Can you immediately share the essence of what it is that you do, with others?

The first rule of public speaking is to tell your audience what you’re going to tell them.

After you do that, the next two rules are (also) simple:

But the best advice I ever got was this:

Can you break down what you do into the top three most important (and simplest) components? What if you could?

You study leadership, don’t you? You read. A lot. You watch others, with the intent to learn two things:

The world is overloaded with wanna-be’s and imitators.

In today’s world, if you want to stand out, you need to do one of two things:

Do you have a story you’d like to tell? You know, could you write a book? Do you dream of writing a story, writing a book? Me too.

On a recent call with Jack Canfield, Chicken Soup For the Soul co-author. His number one piece of advice for aspiring authors?

Write the book!

A few more nuggets tomorrow. Quit waiting. Do something. Carpe diem!

As I head out the door this morning, I’m going to keep repeating to myself, “Be authentic!”

Corporate buzzwords, like Leadership Toolbox, sound great. Heck, there’s no shortage of great sounding.

But there IS a shortage of great doing.

Leadership and career tools and tips won’t work unless you do. Duh!

This is what’s known as a blinding flash of the obvious.

Some of you will migrate from using tools, to actually creating tools.

This is known as transformational change, and tools are designed to facilitate this.

But few of us are organized enough to get there.